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To: Neocon who wrote (14496)	6/8/2002 3:11:04 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I remember one person making a big deal out of Reagan's failure to recognize his son Michael, after he had been away at boarding school a few months. It turned out that Reagan has very poor eyesight without his contacts, which he was not wearing on that occasion, and that Michael had grown in the interim. and Yes, I know it took place at the boarding school. The main thing is that they had not seen each other for awhile, and he was not wearing his contacts I did think that "did not recognize his son Michael, after he had been away at boarding school for a few months," contained the possibility that Michael had returned home, perhaps taking his Dad a bit by surprise, or that context and unexpectedness might have been part of the problem. It is surprising to me that a politician whose naural eyesight was so poor that he couldn't see faces at a distance of an arm's length, would appear in public that way. I wonder why his son, in telling of this story, never mentioned his father's legal blindness? Although I don't know for sure, wouldn't you suspect that an inability to discern faces from a yard away would qualify under that category? To me, in the family context as reported by the children, the above scenario would be more surprising than if he did as his son reported-- simply didn't recognize him for a minute; and that this event was later 'spun.' Had Michael been reporting accurately, it would have been spun in any case, that we know, not being idiots. The incident reminds me of something discussed earlier: that often individual incidents capture attention because they seem to be part of a pattern. The Reagan children have, of course, all commented on their odd relations to their father. If I happen to be the person to whom you referred when you unfortunately raised this matter as making a "big deal" of this incident, I do hope you recall that I presented it merely as one among many incidents that I offered as illustrative.